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All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.' 

Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968)
Source: The Box in a Valise, translated by David Britt (New Yorki: Rizzoli, 1989) p285
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A drop of pond water
under the microscope
just like in science class
but now your are the pond
& the microscope is mindfulness

Stephen Levine
Source: Breaking the Drought (Larson Publications, Burdett NY: 2007)
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Take karma, make dharma.  

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Words cannot proxy for the experience of knowing -- of seeing and hearing.

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If you want to enjoy the movie, you should know that it is the combination of film and light and white screen, and that the most important thing is to have a plain, white screen.

Shunryu Suzuki Roshi : Gaia Explorer
Shunryu Suzuki
Source: Our Everyday Life Is Like a Movie
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Remember love. Remember our hearts are one.  Even when we are fighting with each other, our hearts are beating in unison.  I love you.

Yoko Ono
Source: Commencement Address, Maine College of Art, 2003
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Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : German philosopher, scientist & writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Source: Scientific Studies [Suhrkamp, 1988] pps 303–4
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For us, there is only the trying.
The rest is not our business.

Thomas Stearns Eliot : British-American poet & critic
T.S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
Source: — Four Quartets, East Coker, II
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A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots.

Walt Whitman : American poet & journalist
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
 
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The good news is that we are Buddha.
The bad news is that all beings are Buddha.
The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.

Albert Low
Source: Tradition and Transitions
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